children have actually suffered injuries by getting their shoes caught in escalators.okay. my grandma has told me a lot of stories that have made me into the paranoid wreck that i have today, such as playing with your bellybutton will cause it to rip open, and not tying your shoes can make an escalator eat you. but i didn't actually know that her rambling is true (i am now in fear every time someone touches my bellybutton)

there are tons of cases where children actually have had their feet mutilated by escalators. for instance, in 1997 a little girl got her foot mangled at a department store. the injury left her big toe dangling by a piece of skin and if that doesn't scare you, in 1963 a woman actually DIED by getting her shoe caught in an escalator, falling, and getting her hair stuck. that's why i wear extensions- i can just clip them off and run away, rather than being scalped and having my head skin lodged into the escalator steps forever.

people have died laughing.i kid you not. apparently this has happened a ton of times. for instance, in 1975, a 50 year old man kicked the bucket after roaring with laughter to one of his favorite television shows. what a horrible ironic way to die. honestly, if that isn't a huge kick in the face from jesus, i don't know what is. these causes of death are usually from the inability to breathe, or heart attacks.

BUT COME ON PEOPLE. IF YOU CAN'T BREATHE, DON'T YOU THINK YOU'D STOP LAUGHING? unless you're one of those freaks of nature that tie belts around their necks when they crank it to intensify pleasure. wohohoho

a vacationing couple discovered a dead body underneath their bed.good god. imagine having a great time on the beaches of hawaii, hammered out of your mind on one too many carved out coconut colladas, when you drop your cellphone (for the 50th time) onto the floor. you lean over to get it, and come face to face with the rotting corpse of ventrilla, a maid from 1980.

apparently dead bodies get stashed underneath boxsprings more than we'd like to think. on june 2003, a couple staying in at the Burgundy Motor Inn noticed a funky smell (and it probably wasn't the roaches or the scent of sex from the 50 previous motel go-ers.) and called the main desk. After searching the room, the couple, and the motel manager discovered the body of 64 year old Saul Hernandez.

SURPRISINGLY, this incident was discovered again in a Kansas city motel, and AGAIN in 1996, in a California motel. The moral of this story? DON'T SLEEP IN MOTELS, especially after bodies have been found hidden in them FIVE MORE TIMES, from florida, to Miami. That, my friends, is some fucked up shit. Remind me to check under the bed before i rest my little head down to sleep in some flea bitten motel.

a man is killed after the cactus he had been beating falls on him.THAT'LL TEACH YOU FOR HURTING A DEFENSELESS CACTI. forget PETA when there's people running around torturing little cactuses who have done nothing wrong in their lives other than being very prickly. in 1982, two roommates, David Grundman and James Suchochi thought they'd be tough guys and go out shooting cacti in the middle of the desert (now that's what i call a good time) ends up after they shoot the thing, the cactus' arm flies at David, crushing him, and bringing him to a very prickly death. mmm, sweet revenge.

abused goat turns on owner, killing him.looks like the goat heard the tail of the brave little cacti that could, and decided to stand up to his owner. Carl Hulsey, a genius of a man, decided that one day he would turn his goat into a watch dog. Snowball, the goat, would be regularly beaten by Carl in order to make it more aggressive. This went on for a while, until one day, snowball decided he wasn't going to put up with any shit no more. When Carl approached the goat, snowball fucked shit up. when snowball saw carl approaching with the stick, snowball broke loose from it's rope and butted Carl in the stomach, again and again. Carl died from a blunt trama to the abdominal cavity, which means snowball destroyed carl's stomach.

what's awesome about this story is that naturally the goat would have been put down for violence against a person, but so many people heard the story of snowball that a riot was held. people started calling animal control, threatening if they hurt snowball, they would get hurt. there was also talk of a bomb being planted if snowball didn't walk. snowball walked.

LOOK WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, CARL.

student mistakes example of unsolvable math problem as a homework assignment, and solves it.A guy named George Dantzig came into class late, and noticed two questions on the black board. because he didn't hear what the questions were, her jotted them down and decided to solve them for the next class. little did he know that the 2nd question was an unsolvable, and yet he solved it.

WAIT. WHAT? i can barely solve the solvable questions, let alone do something impossible. and the guy isn't even ASIAN? there is no explanation for this other than he is an alien and must be killed. also, this is the legend that was the setup plot for good will hunting. woeiwokeowew i want a movie made about me. ffff.

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dude, urban legends are the best, even when they turn out to be real. but i seem to like to read the ones that AREN'T real more, because reading about stupid shit that people believe is awesome. Here are some things that people actually believe are true:

Girl impales herself on a car gearshift after being given a spanish fly (an aphrodisiac.)Kit Kat chocolate bars being luck to Japanese Students during exams.Man tricked into believing he's won the lottery confesses he's having an affair.Refried beans are beans that have been fried more than once.Caesar salad was invented by Julius CaesarThe personalities of the dwarf characters in Snow White represent the different stages of cocaine addication.

for more stuff like this, go to www.snopes.com i can spend hours on that site. it covered almost every urban legend and myth you can think of! (except for if shrooms really make you brain bleed. i still want to know!)</a>

SO ITS BEEN A WHILE.... sorry friends. it is EXAM TIME* dun dun DUNNNN* @ university so we have been a little bit busy...STUDYING HAPPENS TO BE THE HARDEST THING OF LIFE FOR ME. I get distracted SOOO EASILYmy latest addiction:

and to make things worse... I can't even get over 900 points.. EPIC FAIL

Another hobby which has preoccupied my time has been SLEEPING!! Along with my lengthy naps, come very VERYobscure dreamsIn the case of a PARTICULARILY strange dream I turn to my favourite book, "The Dreamer's Dictionary" - Lady Stearn Robinson & Tom Gorbett...Check out some dream dictionaries online... my fav is dreammoods.com

so. i have an addiction, guys, and i thought there is no better time like the present to admit it. and you know, admiting it is the first step.

now, we all have our guilty little pleasures- chocolate, cats, cocaine, bacon. but this is much more serious than cocaine and bacon. this is completely draining my bank account, and i thought i'd be brave and get this off my chest.

I AM ADDICTED TO JAPANESE STATIONARY AND STICKERS

WHY? you might ask? WELL I'LL TELL YOU THE REASON WHY, MY FRIENDS.

THIS CUTE LITTLE PANDA PIRATE IS THE REASON WHY. LOOK AT HIM, BEING ALL CUTE, PLAYING PIRATE GAMES WITH HIS LITTLE CAT FRIENDS. look at them exchange their giant pink diamonds and star shaped pirate booty. THEY EVEN HAVE A LITTLE SQUID WITH STAR EYES. and every one of them has a little outfit. WHO MADE THESE OUTFITS? WHERE CAN I GET ONE FOR MY PANDA AND/OR CAT??

am i the only one who understands that in japan, everything is happy? EVERYTHING? JAPAN has one of the freakiest porn cultures in the entire world, and yet they lure me in with their bears dressed up like bunnies and their cupcakes with happy faces.

i kid you not on my addiction. why, if i don't buy something japanese and cute for a period of 3 days, i start seeing things. cute things. i can't even go into the fridge without seeing a hotdog smiling back at me. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO EAT A SMILING CUPCAKE? god damnit.

the sad part about it is that i never even write letters, or need stationary in the first place. i just like to look at them.

well, the nice thing about addictions is that you're hardly ever alone. however, in this case, i think i am, so let me infect you all.

now click these little bunnies and say goodbye to your college savings.

Yeah, so today we had a guest speaker in one of my lectures, and my prof was trying to be all stealthy not getting in his way while she tried to unplug some cord. UNFORTUNATELY FOR HER, she tripped on that cord and wiped out. Poor lady.Actually, none of my profs had good days today. My politics professor decides to yell to the gigantic lecture room instead of using a microphone. So even as a grown man his voice squeaks hahaha.Speaking of embarassment. I NEED FOR YOU TO LOOK @ THIS VIDEO.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEtP9zQAOI4I can't embedd it because that was like disabled by the girl. FOR JUST THIS REASON. I just can't help but wonder what goes through some people's heads before they upload these things to the world wide web. WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT I GUESS!

ALTHOUGH. I DID POST A VIDEO TO A HANNAH MONTANA SONG BECAUSE I LOVE HER. I'm not going to post it because I am very embarassed.

Lip syncing reminded me of how much I actually love like, covered songs. Like really random people/artists that cover songs. LIKE THAT JUST DANCE SONG CHEY WAS TALKING ABOUT. I hope you listened to it because it was so pretty. probably one of my favourite is DaveDays' (from YOUCHOOB) cover of No One by Alicia Keys

OREverytime by the Frames (Britney Spears cover) SO PRETTY

BY THE WAY, i tried out the program that chey sent me. and i dont get it. i cant even post a picture because im a failure. *LOVE ERICA*

Sorry to sneeze on you. I'm suffering from a lame head cold!Stuffy, runny, sneezy nose. YUCK! Due to my uncomfortableness in this situation I decided to look up some QUICK FIX healing spells for the COMMON COLD:Some of my favourite remedies ARE:

LIQUORICE: soothes the head and chest. it contains anti-viral compounds that help out your body's own cold-fighting lil guys. mmm nibs.BLACKBERRIES: one of my favourite berries! high in VITAMIN C so that should make the recovery time a lil faster.CATNIP: some of you cat lovers might have this laying around! It promotes persperation so that way you can sweat out the cold! yay catnip!

here's a magical spell.ONE: Measure out a 3/4 cup of water into a pan and bring it to a boil.TWO: Lower the heat to a simmer and put in a cinnamon stick, three tablespoons of sugar, and a teaspoon of table salt. THREE:Cook the mixture for ten minutes, stirring continuously. FOUR:Add the liquorice root to the pan to cook and stir the mixture counterclockwise for ten full minutes. While stirring, repeat the phrase: "Horrescere dirimo et cessare hodie" until the ten minutes are up. Phonetically it's pronounced, "Hor-ech-air-ay dur-ee-moe et says-are-ay hoe-dee-ay." The translation is "Shivers stop and leave right now."

FIVE: Add another three tablespoons of brown sugar to the pan. The liquorice root has powerful healing properties but can be acidic and therefore bitter. A positive mindset can be important when fighting an illness, so it's best not to disturb that with unpleasant sensations such as bad taste. SIX: Strain the mixture and pour it into a bottle, but let it cool to room temperature before corking it.

SEVEN: Repeat the phrase: "Horrescere dirimo et cessare hodie" once before corking the bottle and once before taking each dose. Take one teaspoonful in the morning and another before bed, repeating the phrase before putting the spoon in your mouth each time. The cold will disappear within three days.

WHILE TRYING TO FIND THESE MAGICAL HEALING SPELLS, I ran across some gypsy magic. Got reading andWOW! I FOUND OUT I CAN CHANGE MY LUCK BY BATHING IN NUTMEG WATER!

or if I decide to throw candy and change around my house, it should bring me GOOD LUCK! ....I couldn't possibly imagine how that would not bring me bugs and small animals rummaging through my house and an EMPTY pocket for when I want to buy some extermination equipment for the infestations!

Magic scares me a lil bit. The whole idea of something being the way it shouldn't is so CRAZEE. I watched a movie last night about a car which was like ALIVE!! BLACK MAGIC I TELL YOU!! Kind of like Herbie or Cars but only this car was the DEVIL! It's a Stephen King book so OBVIOUSLY IT IS GOING TO BE FUCKED UP! w/e I liked it though ahhahaha I'm just never going to drive a 1958 Plymouth Fury, and I don't suggest you do EITHER!ANYWAYS! I'm gonna go magic away my head cold!

WOAH WELL THAT'S A SEIZURE AND A HALF.what is up my pumpkins and pumpkettes. it's cheyenne! i have been meaning to write an entry for a while, but i'm too tired. playing pikmin all day will do that to ya.

so today me and my friend were taking about what the world would be like if pokemon were real. we often go back and talk about the good ol' days when we were kids, but i realized that my ~*childhood dreams~* didn't sound so awesome now that i was older.

i mean, when i was small, after rearranging my pokemon cards in my little collectors case for 7 hours, i'd think AW MAN I WISH I HAD A CHARIZARD. I'D RIDE IT TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY AND MAKE IT EAT ALL THE OLDER KIDS AND EVERYONE WOULD THINK I'M SO COOL.

now that i think about it, there is no way in hell 1) my parents would let me ride a charizard (i asked them if hogwarts was real, if they'd let me go. they said no. fucking lame.) and 2) i'm sure a charizard would rather destroy me with fire then fly me back and forth to elementary school.

then we started talking about ursering (YES I KNOW THEIR NAMES. DON'T TELL ME YOU DON'T.) that's a giant grizzley bear. now, bears are dangerous enough on their own. but now picture a bear that can shoot HYPER BEAM LAZERS THROUGH IT'S MOUTH AT YOU. civilization as we know it is done for.

but im sure it would make for some interesting news stories:

wild snorlax was found asleep on highway 347. unfortunately, no magic flutes were found in time. there were no survivors.MORE NEWS AT EIGHT~*~*

an apartment building was set on fire for the third time this week due to our recent charizard infestation. unfortunately, the squirtle rescue team was nowhere to be found. there were no survivors.

some bad news for people allergic to bees. recently there has been an overpopulation of beedrills that have been shipped over her by accident by team rocket from mexico. make sure that you lock your doors and don't go outside because THESE THINGS ARE HUGE AND HAVE DRILLS FOR ARMS. HOLY SHI-

so anyways. i found something pretty cool that i thought i'd share with ya'll.

DISNEY REUSES THEIR ANIMATIONS

which is actually really interesting, cause i can see where they're coming from with the whole drawing over and over thing, but there are ridiculously obvious.

WIERD HUH? there's a WHOLE bunch more here, because i didn't feel like posting them all! there's ones from winnie the pooh and sword and the stone and a few more from snow white.

i love disney secrets. they're so wicked.

so this entry is getting a bit long, so i'm gonna cut it short with a small play list i'm makin for you guys if you'd like to hear some of my favorite songs of the moment. if you've already heard them, i love you even more!

HOLA AMIGOS!Waz ^!?11!?!My essay turned out wonderfully for anybody who was concerned...I would just like to say that OMG @ DORA! I can't believe her :(

SO CHEYENNE wants me to find an icon... SO i decided to go with the peace sign..

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR

Some people in this world have the greatest ideas. Some people start blogs on live journalsother people pay their bills with pictures of SPIDERS!hahaha this guy was a little behind on his payments so he decided that his artwork would make up for his loss of fundsThe story is actually hilarious so I recommend that you check it outhttp://www.geekologie.com/2008/11/good_idea_man_submits_drawing.php

IF ONLY I COULD PAY FOR MY TUITION WITH MY MS PAINT PICTURES :'(

So TODAY, I was on the shuttle bus going back to my car after school.. and it got pretty packed. The bus is like a regular school bus, only its white and the seats face eachother instead of being in rows. This creates sort of an awkward situation when the bus gets busy because, well, its a bus... there's not a whole lot of room! So LUCKY ME got to be the middle of a "huge oversized man" sandwhich. To make matters worse, the guy sitting to my left was TOTALLY invading my personal space, and when I say totally, I mean he was leaning over to read what my text messages were saying. So naturally, I was shifting towards the right, only to invade that guys personal space. The bus driver must have decided to drive like a maniac because I like fell into this guy. This is how i felt:

ps. I love community channel, she's so funny! check her out! :)

AU REVOIR MES AMIESsorry if your french and i just butcherd your language\!! xoxoxoxE - R - I - C - A

HAHAHAHA i don't know what it is about babies, but everything they do is hilarious. this little guy reminds me of myself after i've had a bit too much tequila on the dance floor~*~this kid's so adorable i want to run up to him and hit him with a bat ♥ ♥ ♥

but there's something not right here- firstly that the little sister is screaming something that i can't make out in the most annoying voice ever contrived by a human being. second of all- when the video's over, there is 'RECOMMENDED VIDEO' OF A BREAST FEEDING TODDLER????!

what is wrong with the world today when you can't watch a video of a physically confused baby hula hooping without seeing some kid latched onto a 40 year old woman's boob? jhgfddjgh i'm starting my own colony.

SPEAKING OF BABIES

~*~apparently~* dora the explorer has a new makeover to try to fit in with all of her fans that are getting older........ WHAT. alright, do they honestly think that kids are going to be growing up and still wearing dora the explorer backpacks? (i am excluding the scene kids here. they don't count.) if producers still had the same money grabbing ideology that they have today, barney would be a teenage dinosaur, smoking a bong and trying to ~*~*relate~*~* to kids these days while bragging about his guitar hero score.and what's with dora's new getup?THAT IS NOT ADVENTURING ATTIRE. how the fuck is she supposed to venture up star mountain in those lacy little flats? i also noticed that she no longer has a backpack. well, i guess that's what the traning bra's for.

i don't know if they're going to keep the premise of the old show, but the new look doesn't really look like she's out for discovering more than why diego's voice has dropped a few octives.

the sad thing is, new dora has better hair and legs than i do, which is really gonna bring down my spirits once i start seeing 5 year olds with long flowing straight hair and purple stretch pants.

they sell the wierdest, but coolest stuff at really reasonable prices (that is, if you're down for spending 9 dollars for cupcake flavoured floss.) even if you're not buying anything, i'm always looking foreward to when they restock cause everything they have at the store is SO AWESOME. check it out.